Sberbank Ecosystem Company – Sberautotech – presented a prototype of fully autonomous electrical transport of their own development. The novelty received the name “flip” and implements the concept of new mobility: a completely unmanned vehicle (maximum, fifth level of autonomy by international classification) provides a quick, safe and comfortable movement of passengers using the latest technologies from the world of IT and auto production. About this “Lent.Ru” reported in the press service of the Sberbank.
The basis of the “Flip” design is an electric platform for its own design. The platform is driven by an electric motor, and the power supply is a module of replaceable batteries. The know-how company is a layout of batteries that allows you to replace all modules for no more than five minutes, which is comparable to refueling the traditional fuel of the standard car. This solution actually removes the current restrictions for the use of electrical transport: long charging of standard batteries and their high cost dictated by the necessary capacity and stock of the electric vehicle. The layout of the “flip” allows not only electricity as electricity as sources, but also other carriers of alternative fuel, including gas and hydrogen.
The platform is originally designed by Snelautotech, taking into account the requirements for connected and unmanned transport, which opens a new milestone in the development of personal and public transport. “Flips” as a means of new mobility are able to reduce the number of cars on the streets, fully solve the problem of the “last mile” and ensure the level of comfort, fundamentally inaccessible in any other form of public transport. The platform underlying the “flip” provides maximum layout flexibility and allows you to post on the platform any version of the add-in, cargo or combined.
External dimensions “flip” are the same as the standard passenger car (3.62 meters by 1.95 meters), but spaces inside by 40 percent are larger, because there are no internal components of the elements characteristic of the engine with the engine internal combustion. “Flip” was originally designed as a fully autonomous vehicle, there are no traditional controls for the driver. In the cabin with comfort there is six people.